5 – ASUS GTX 560 DC2 TOP: Gaming Tests

Synthetic benchmark are cool (from a developer point of view) but many readers are not developers and then wish to see benchmarks based on real video games. I mainly used benchmarks included in game demos and then, dear readers, if you know other game demos that include a benchmark, just let me know.

5.1 Crysis (DirectX 10)

I used the integrated GPU benchmark (64-bit) option provided with Crysis demo.

Settings: default resolution (1920×1080 fullscreen)

Results: Average FPS for the TimeDemo Run 0.

77.87 FPS – ASUS HD 6950

76.19 FPS – ASUS HD 6950 DC2

74.46 FPS – Sapphire HD 6970

73.60 FPS – Sapphire HD 6870

73.55 FPS – Radeon HD 5870

71.00 FPS – ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II

69.37 FPS – EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SC

69.43 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 DCII TOP

69.34 FPS – GeForce GTX 480

67.95 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP

65.20 FPS – MSI N460GTX Cyclone

49.76 FPS – ASUS Radeon HD 6670

35.02 FPS – ASUS GeForce GT 440

5.2 DiRT 2 (DirectX 11)

I used the benchmarking option provided with DiRT2 demo.

Settings: 1920×1080, 4X MSAA.

151.4 FPS – EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SC

129.91 FPS – ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II

123.44 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP

121.6 FPS – GeForce GTX 480

115.53 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 DCII TOP

94.26 FPS – Sapphire HD 6970

88.74 FPS – MSI N460GTX Cyclone

88.14 FPS – Radeon HD 5870

85.54 FPS – Sapphire HD 6870

85.33 FPS – ASUS HD 6950 DC2

85.09 FPS – ASUS HD 6950

41.84 FPS – ASUS Radeon HD 6670

32.90 FPS – ASUS GeForce GT 440

5.3 Resident Evil 5 (DirectX 10)

I used the benchmarking option (DX10 version) provided with Resident Evil 5 demo.

Settings: 1920×1080. 4XMSAA

120.5 FPS – ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II

118.0 FPS – EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SC

116.6 FPS – GeForce GTX 480

116.0 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP

115.6 FPS – Sapphire HD 6970

115.0 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 560 DCII TOP

107.8 FPS – ASUS HD 6950

107.6 FPS – ASUS HD 6950 DirectCU II

104.5 FPS – Radeon HD 5870

99.9 FPS – Sapphire HD 6870

86.4 FPS – MSI N460GTX Cyclone

49.6 FPS – ASUS Radeon HD 6670

37.4 FPS – ASUS GeForce GT 440

Remark: the GTX 570 ahead of the GTX 580? Certainly an optimization in the recent drivers R266.58 (if so, I have to re-test the GTX 580) or a wrong reading of the score…